Zoology 250- Exam 1 Pendarvis Exam Questions and Answers with
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Q: What are the characteristics of life?
Answer:
All Living things share...
Common Chemistry
Made of cells
Metabolic Processes
Life cycles and Specific life spans
Common genetic code
Q: What are the 6 kingdoms?
Answer:
1. Archaea
Eubacteria
Protista
Plantae
Fungi
Animalia
Q: Traits that make us Human:
Answer:
-Omnivores
-Post anal tail as an embryo
-Opposable thumbs
-Forward facing eyes,hands, etc.
-Pharyngeal pouches and arches (gill slits); ours come from bottom jaw, earbone,
etc.
-Notochord (rod down spine) supportive
-Enlarged brain(1400g)
-Well-developed frontal lobe
-Color vision
-Stereo Vision (3D)
,-Menstrual Cycle
Q: Ancient cultures biggest problems:
Answer:
-Pain
-Bleeding
-Infection
Q: Asclepius
Answer:
-Greek God of healing
-Students were called Asclepiads.
-Basic ideas they followed: rest, proper diet, exercise, no alcohol.
-Snakes would help them sleep to ward off evil spirits.
Q: -Dogs licked the patients' wounds releasing Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF)
Answer:
influences cell division or mitosis to promote healing.
Q: Hippocrates
Answer:
-Father of Medicine
-Physician
-Treated patients with kindness and good diet.
-Wrote a book on Epilisis
-Hippocratic oath with doctor patient relations
Q: Aristotle
Answer:
-Greek philosopher and scientist
-Father of everything
-Function of the brain is to cool the body.
-Introduced many things and some were incorrect.
Q: Claudius Galen
,Answer:
-Greek doctor/ anatomist
-Always dissecting animals
-Went to medical school
-Miracle worker
-Mule head (stubborn and stuck on himself)
-Ended up in Rome Coliseum working with emergencies on Gladiators.
-Official Doctor of Rome
-Didn't do internal stuff; mainly external
-Vivisect- live disections
Q: Leonardo DaVinci
Answer:
-Dissected and learned internal parts of the body
-Would write down intense anatomical notes.
-Wrote backwards so no one could read his work
-Would have been the Father of Modern Medicine but his work was lost within
history. (lost hero)
Q: Andreas Vesal
Answer:
-Father of anatomy today
-Strength was dissecting; Cut prisoners down off side the road and would dissect
them.
-Public dissections
-Straightened out the mistakes that Galen made.
-Because he had artists draw his artwork his body parts were very accurate.
Q: William Harvey
Answer:
-British Doctor to the King
-Works out a lot of the details on the circulatory system.
-Discovers that we have valves in our veins (pulse, circulation)
-Arteries are very round and stretchy because they are under a lot of pressure.
, Q: Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek
Answer:
-Dutch lens maker
-Talent for sewing curtains
-Made lenses to view the curtain fabric
-Found webeasties/ammicules (bacteria)
-Found 10,000 webeasties Giardia in his feces.
-Introduced the world of the cell.
-Introduced microscope; but didn't invent.
Q: Robert Hooke
Answer:
-British Scientist
-Improves the microscope
-Describes the cell
-Didn't like Issac Newton
Q: Marcello Malpichi
Answer:
He described many tissues and the microscopic names of the cells.
Q: Bichat
Answer:
-Study of Histology (Tissues)
Q: Beaumont
Answer:
-army Physician
-Study digestive physiology
-Because of him we understand digestive juices.
Q: Carl Landsteiner
Answer:
-Blood transfusion between animals.
-Describes Blood groups (O,A,B,AB,O)
Verified Solutions | Latest 2026 Update
Q: What are the characteristics of life?
Answer:
All Living things share...
Common Chemistry
Made of cells
Metabolic Processes
Life cycles and Specific life spans
Common genetic code
Q: What are the 6 kingdoms?
Answer:
1. Archaea
Eubacteria
Protista
Plantae
Fungi
Animalia
Q: Traits that make us Human:
Answer:
-Omnivores
-Post anal tail as an embryo
-Opposable thumbs
-Forward facing eyes,hands, etc.
-Pharyngeal pouches and arches (gill slits); ours come from bottom jaw, earbone,
etc.
-Notochord (rod down spine) supportive
-Enlarged brain(1400g)
-Well-developed frontal lobe
-Color vision
-Stereo Vision (3D)
,-Menstrual Cycle
Q: Ancient cultures biggest problems:
Answer:
-Pain
-Bleeding
-Infection
Q: Asclepius
Answer:
-Greek God of healing
-Students were called Asclepiads.
-Basic ideas they followed: rest, proper diet, exercise, no alcohol.
-Snakes would help them sleep to ward off evil spirits.
Q: -Dogs licked the patients' wounds releasing Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF)
Answer:
influences cell division or mitosis to promote healing.
Q: Hippocrates
Answer:
-Father of Medicine
-Physician
-Treated patients with kindness and good diet.
-Wrote a book on Epilisis
-Hippocratic oath with doctor patient relations
Q: Aristotle
Answer:
-Greek philosopher and scientist
-Father of everything
-Function of the brain is to cool the body.
-Introduced many things and some were incorrect.
Q: Claudius Galen
,Answer:
-Greek doctor/ anatomist
-Always dissecting animals
-Went to medical school
-Miracle worker
-Mule head (stubborn and stuck on himself)
-Ended up in Rome Coliseum working with emergencies on Gladiators.
-Official Doctor of Rome
-Didn't do internal stuff; mainly external
-Vivisect- live disections
Q: Leonardo DaVinci
Answer:
-Dissected and learned internal parts of the body
-Would write down intense anatomical notes.
-Wrote backwards so no one could read his work
-Would have been the Father of Modern Medicine but his work was lost within
history. (lost hero)
Q: Andreas Vesal
Answer:
-Father of anatomy today
-Strength was dissecting; Cut prisoners down off side the road and would dissect
them.
-Public dissections
-Straightened out the mistakes that Galen made.
-Because he had artists draw his artwork his body parts were very accurate.
Q: William Harvey
Answer:
-British Doctor to the King
-Works out a lot of the details on the circulatory system.
-Discovers that we have valves in our veins (pulse, circulation)
-Arteries are very round and stretchy because they are under a lot of pressure.
, Q: Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek
Answer:
-Dutch lens maker
-Talent for sewing curtains
-Made lenses to view the curtain fabric
-Found webeasties/ammicules (bacteria)
-Found 10,000 webeasties Giardia in his feces.
-Introduced the world of the cell.
-Introduced microscope; but didn't invent.
Q: Robert Hooke
Answer:
-British Scientist
-Improves the microscope
-Describes the cell
-Didn't like Issac Newton
Q: Marcello Malpichi
Answer:
He described many tissues and the microscopic names of the cells.
Q: Bichat
Answer:
-Study of Histology (Tissues)
Q: Beaumont
Answer:
-army Physician
-Study digestive physiology
-Because of him we understand digestive juices.
Q: Carl Landsteiner
Answer:
-Blood transfusion between animals.
-Describes Blood groups (O,A,B,AB,O)
